Our allies are fine. I'm learning to dislike my countrymen. Not that there's a lot of new ground to cover on that subject...
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Iβm sorry from half of America
Yeah sux at this point I wish I could get my family out. I know tat if we must fight ww3 we want to be on the side of democracy
A third. There's a third in favor of the turd, a third is apathetic, and a third did something to stop the turd.
So two thirds are problematic.
Are they fitting the curve on like 3 points for 24 and 25? I don't think it's untrue but why publish this with such a low-hanging fruit to delegitimize the argument
What I find surprising is that it was decreasing before, what happened in 2018?
EDIT : oh yeah, Trump's first term started in 2017, I just didn't realise that time passes so fast
There is a French saying that perfectly fits current situation :
You don't need enemies when you have this kind of friends.
Although I don't know if it's specifically French.
In English it's "With friends like these, who needs enemies?"
Apparently coined by an early 20th century comedian, but I wouldn't put a lot of stock in that origin.
now do the same thing with Canadians about mericans . 90 degree upwards i'm guessing.
Hope go isolationist like in past
Historically, that hasn't gone well the last couple times we have tried that.
How was this question phrased in the survey?
Because in a very literal sense, Canada is being unfriendly. They should be. Amerikkka needs like infinite punishment right now.
You could see republicans opinion change drastically and immediately in his first term based on his opinion, and democrat opinion remain relatively the same. When Obama bombed Syria, around 80 percent of Democrats and 80 percent of Republicans disapproved. When trump bombed Syria Democrats moved a few percentage points. It was probably affected, but in the deviations. Republicans swapped from 80/20 disapprove/approve straight to 20/80.
There was a great chart that showed this sort of phenomenon, I think across a range of issues, but I can't find it. Can anybody help me out?
I know which one you mean I think β a range of charts that showed how conservatives' principles changed a lot depending on which party was in power while liberals' stayed fairly consistent. I've just spent ages trying to find it too, thought it was on dataisbeautiful but my google-fu is also letting me down.
I'm sure you can find many with words analogous to voters, changing, perceptions, opinion polls, etc. I know I've seen dozens of examples of conservatives changing their opinions dramatically based on propaganda, while everyone else β the people not indoctrinated with a mental illness β stay relatively static; as in +/- 5% instead of 10-40%.
You will likely have to use advanced search and the internet archive. Also best to search key propaganda narratives like "migrant caravan".
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm looking for, but my google-fu (or rather DDG-fu) is failing me. That's why I'm asking for help.
You'd think an appropriate chart would come up in a simple image search and not require archive.org. I don't think it's been memory-holed; I think I can't figure out the right search terms.
Magats are fucking dumb. Argue with them like itβs a chess match being a few moves ahead and you can very accurately predict what theyβll say next.
Like flipping a switch. Americans are completely brainwashed.
Republicans are brainwashed. This sort of thing happens all the time with them, on almost every issue.
Both are brainwashed, just in different ways. Republicans are wired for fear. Democrats are wired for passivity.
The republican version is a lot more dangerous, but the democrat version is a lot more insidious.
Ive spent a lot of time in the states and i can tell you unequivocally that all americans afe haddwired for fear. You are extremely jumpy and paranoid people when compared to more modern nations.
Fyi, I'm not actually American myself. I agree with you otherwise however.
I'd like to see these graphs only relating to their opinions on Russia and North Korea from the 1980s, at least, through now.
This is just insane, though. The decoupling from reality is seemingly total.
I'm just one guy, but absolutely not me. I hate my fellow Americans a million times more than anyone in Canada, or Europe.
Man, looking closely at this is comical. Conservatives are the most flock-minded people on Earth, whatever their taking heads say instantly becomes their new zeitgeist. The irony of conservatives calling everyone else sheep is... Well I guess there's a reason I so often hear the phrase "every conservative accusation is a confession".
This is the power of the algos.
I had two Reddit accounts and one was solely used for gaming. Which started to give me feeds completely different then my more left, progressivy main account.
I would get these heavy metal videos about Mexican rapists that were deported on the one linked with gaming. (A clear conservative take). Showed Canadians as commies / socialist evil staties. Like dudes face - deportation date - what they were convicted of - murder or rape. It was wild.
And some of my liberal social main account demonstrated or showed a shit load of Canadian content that linked them with MAGA. And consistently highlighted their crimes against indigenous people. With tag lines of like βthey want to talk about what we do - look at what they doβ.
so Iβm not even sure if the blue line ticking up is βI hate Canadiansβ or βthey are magats tooβ
To be clear - am American - hate Americans - hate social media (Lemmy is my last social hope / account left) am team Canada all the way / Europe all the way.